PSA on privuhcy

[don@lemmy.ca]

You all got Rick-rolled btw

[spankmonkey@lemmy.world]

Only if they typed it in, but I appreciated a recognizable link!

[notsteve_@piefed.ca]

Everything after the ? can be safely removed

This is usually true but but not always. There's often times when a URL query like that is used to choose the page to load. I believe wordpress does this

[pastacannon@lemmy.ml]

This is so important, too many people don’t know about this.

But still this is not shitposting. God .world sucks. Ble

[cracks_inthewalls@sh.itjust.works]

Yep!

Only thing I want to see after a ? in a youtube url is t=4m20s

[punnyname@lemmy.world]

XcQ all the way!

[mwa@thelemmy.club]

I am pretty sure firefox let's you remove trackers from url.

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

firefox has a right click option to remove those

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

yup, its a right click option

[zachariah@lemmy.world]

There are many URLs that require parameters to load a resource (and aren’t necessarily tracking anything). With YouTube’s non-shortened links (for example), the video ID is after the ?, but is usually (but not always) immediately after.

This:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Can be shortened to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

But no shorter.

(actually, you can remove the www. but that’s not relevant for illustrating my point)

LOL: thank you Voyager or Lemmy.world for stripping it even from my inline code.

Here’s what I was trying to post:

[uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I'm on mobile so I will have to drop a link later (if ever)

but do a websearch for the utility link cleaner

It's awesome. Thank me later.

[kungen@feddit.nu]

Only on "I have really bad SEO" kinds of blogs. Query strings have been considered a negative thing for many many years.

[zatore@lemmy.zip]

I made a Firefox plugin that does this for you on YouTube. It's called "YouTube Clean Share" if anyone is interested

[jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk]

Could maybe have a bit of fun randomising those strings.

[tias@discuss.tchncs.de]

Not everybody cares for SEO BS

[brown567@sh.itjust.works]

Sometimes I'll post a picture straight from a duckduckgo search, and it doesn't work without the stuff after the ?

(I'm also not sure how long the url is valid for, so I try not to do this too often)

[dreaming_novaling@lemmy.zip]

I'm upset, the tech and privacy communities need to step it up cause I've never seen this fact. I kinda knew URLs had a lot of junk, but I never knew what could be removed.

[funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works]

WordPress uses a taxonomic system you choose with a mix of the Settings page and how you organize your template hierarchy. To my knowledge there is no out of the box query url functionality in the core system.

[lime@feddit.nu]

personally i like v=aO82NftCga to be in there as well

[lime@feddit.nu]

whuh? querystrings are integral to things like pagination. they are by no means a negative thing.